Iris Nardini is a figurative sculptor based in Victoria, British Columbia. Iris works in clay, bronze and steel to explore the formal tensions of the human body. Interested in line, movement and corporeal tensions, Iris often situates her subjects within spaces and objects that are rife with symbolic meaning. As a figurative sculptor, Iris strives…

Paula writes – As I am traveling in the Southern Hemisphere in April, we’ll focus some blog posts on our artists who live around or below the equator. Our first comes from Argentina. I feel that the fact of drawing is merely an instinctive reflection … maybe the consequence of a certain point of view…

Did you know we have a wonderful Pinterest page dedicated to figurative art? With Boards for abstract figurative painting, fine art nudes, portraits, sculpture and more. We’re adding more to this page as we grow and have time to spend on it and believe me, some people seem to have WAY too much time to…

Guest article by figurative painter Laura den Hertog I have been shipping art around the world for the last decade, and in all that time and hundreds of paintings later, I have only had one painting damaged by the post office. I had heard from other artists that somehow the postal workers were capable of…

Rebecca Carron is a Belgian, Flemish painter, of what she calls ‘fine art with balls’. Emotions, vitality, atmosphere is what her paintings are about. Some paintings and series, such as her cityscapes and some of her landscapes, are more restrained. Most often she tries to find a balance between fine and roughly painted strokes and…

Elena attended The School of Visual Arts, where she earned her BFA. She has worked as an illustrator, instructor and fine artist. Elena Caravela has received numerous corporate and private portrait commissions and has exhibited work in a variety of genre and media. Her illustration work has been published most recently in 3×3 Magazine for…